Matthew Carter at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

Graphic Design & Illustration/2013/34 min/Reel № 13.001

ByMatthew Carter

Matthew Carter on untypical typefaces

The Best of the World's Creativity/Recorded 2013

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Matthew Carter takes graphic design & illustration as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in USA in 2013, the conversation is grounded in Matthew's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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In his talk at Design Indaba 2013, type designer Matthew Carter gives insight into the creation of unusual typefaces.

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Matthew Carter

Massachusetts/USA

Matthew Carter is a type designer with some 50 years' experience, having designed some of the world's most recognised fonts.